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Sensors 2009, 9, 5076-5098; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Selective Attention in Multi-Chip Address-Event Systems Chiara Bartolozzi 1, and Giacomo Indiveri 2 1 Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), via Morego 30, I-16163 Genova, Italy 2 Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, ¨ CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland; E-Mail: giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: chiara.bartolozzi@iit.it; Tel.: +39 010 Received: 7 April 2009; in revised form: 28 May 2009 / Accepted: 23 June 2009 / Published: 26 June 2009 Abstract: Selective attention is the strategy used by biological systems to cope with the in- herent limits in their available computational resources, in order to efficiently process sensory information. The same strategy can be used in artificial systems that have to process vast amounts of sensory data with limited resources. In this paper we present a neuromorphic VLSI device, the “Selective Attention Chip” (SAC), which can be used to implement these models in multi-chip address-event systems. We also describe a real-time sensory-motor sys- tem, which integrates the SAC with a dynamic vision sensor and a robotic actuator. We present experimental results from each component in the system, and demonstrate how the complete system implements a real-time stimulus-driven selective attention mod